The Talk

• I want God to look great and glorious by the way that I eat and drink. Paul wanted all bodies to make Christ look magnificent. Jesus wanted us to live lives that makes God look glorious.
• Colossians 1:16
• It is clear that God and J

  esus intends for your life to bring him glory. He means for whatever you do to make him look great. All human beings are created to put God’s infinite value on display. That is why you exist.

• I want that to happen in your life for all the decades that you are alive.
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  e’s the main point: Seeing and savoring the supremacy of Jesus Christ frees you from the slavery of sin for the sacrifices of love.

• Faith in Jesus Christ frees you from the slavery of sin for the sacrifices of love.
• Seeing and savoring Jesus, being satisfied in all tha

  t God is for us in Jesus and trusting Jesus are equivalent realities. These are the same thing in the Bible.

• When you see and savor the supremacy of Jesus, when you are satisfied in Jesus, you make much of Jesus. You treasure Jesus. But that is invisible. Nobody can see your soul, but God.

  God loves to see that in your soul. But God did not come into this world to be glorified INVISIBLY.

• When you savor Jesus, you outwardly are set free from the slavery of sin, which people can see! The root of your salvation glorifies God privately and the fruit of your salvation glorifies God publicly!

• Step 1: Why are seeing and savoring and being satisfied and trusting equivalent?

• • People still resist saving faith. People still haven’t waved the white flag of surrender to Jesus.
• • What is this saving faith?

• • • John 6:35 – Saving faith is not a decision. It is a soul coming to trust Jesus.
• • • John – Receiving Jesus and believing in Jesus are the same. You receive him for all that he is. He is your savior, you friend, sustainer.
• • • Hebrews 11:6 – Faith is a very child-like, dependent response to glory.

• • This means that coming to faith in Jesus requires a resurrection from the dead. You don’t by nature see and savor God. You are dead. In order to come to him and see him as valuable and precious is a gift. Blind people don’t decide to see. Jesus says, “See!” Then they see. Sickened people don’t decide to savor what is sickening them. That is why some of you are not saved because you cannot decide to save yourself.
• • Conversion is a gift of seeing. You don’t see him as beautiful. So what them happens to freedom?
• • The truth is we are locked down on sin. We inherited our corruption from Adam and Eve.

• • • • Romans 6:17 Paul is thanking God.
• • • • There are only two kinds of people in the world: slaves to sin and slaves to righteousness.
• • • • Freedom is being so in love with Christ that you do whatever you want to do and it accords with his will.
• • • • There will be no struggle in heaven to obey. We will be the freest people in the world.

• Step 2: The supremacy of Jesus Christ. Jesus is supreme over all things. Here are just some of the ways:

• • The supremacy of his knowledge.
• • The supremacy of his wisdom.
• • The supremacy of his authority.
• • The supremacy of his providence.
• • The supremacy of his power.
• • The supremacy of his purity.
• • The supremacy of his justice.
• • The supremacy of his servant obedience.
• • The supremacy of his meekness.
• • The supremacy of his wrath.
• • The supremacy of his faith.
• • The supremacy of his love.
• • The supremacy of his inexhaustible gladness.
• • The supremacy of his severity, invincibility, simplicity, complexity, depth, etc.
• • He is supreme in every adorable way.
• • There is not a square inch on earth Jesus Christ doesn’t say, “Mine!”
• • Oh that God would grant you to see and savor the supremacy of Jesus!

• Step 3: Freeing us from sin. 2 Corinthians 3:18

• • Little hearts give little lusts big power.
• • Big hearts give little lusts little power.
• • The more you fall in love with Jesus, the move you will be progressively freed from the bondage of sin.

• • • You will begin to see sin as the suicide that it is.

• Step 4: To the sacrifices of love.

• • Hebrews 10:4 – Will we now risk our lives for the sake of others?
• • When you are satisfied in Jesus, you make sacrifices now.

• Isaiah 26:8 – You name and your supreme renown our the desire of our soul.

About John

John Piper is Pastor for Preaching and Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN. He has served as pastor at Bethlehem since 1980. John is author of more than 40 books that have been resourcing and challenging the church, along with his teaching for over 30 years. John and his wife, Noel, have four sons, one daughter, and an increasing number of grandchildren. Website: http://www.desiringgod.org/

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